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How To Get Princess Nails

I've never been much of a makeup person, but I am obsessed with my nails. I started growing them out in high school, and I get very sad when one breaks. Since I get so many compliments on my nails, I decided to write a little guide to help you have princess nails too! With the recent advancements in nail wraps, there have never been more easy princess and affordable princess nail options than the are now. You never know when having long nails will come in handy for something. If you use a computer a lot, you tend to look at your fingers fairly often. That's why I try to find the best designs to make my nails look as princess-like as possible. If you like how your nails look, you'll smile every time I look down at your keyboard. Check out these amazing Swan Princess nail wraps I just got from Espionage Cosmetics!

These Moonlight Transformation nail wraps are officially licensed by The Swan Princess and portray the effect of moonlight over the waves on Swan Lake during Odette's transformation. I love the colors as well as the accent nail that subtly shows her as a swan. My order came with 22 wraps in 11 sizes for all different types of nails. In the past, I've had to trim my nail wraps from Jamberry because the smallest size was still too big for my pinky, but these were just right! They peel off and stick on your nails just like stickers without any heat and apply very smoothly. After I applied them, I covered the stickers with a layer of top coat like the website recommends. So far, I haven't had any tearing or chipping. Espionage Cosmetics has three different Swan Princess designs to choose from as well as six for The Last Unicorn. There are tons of other nerdy and pretty designs, and they are cheaper and easier to apply than Jamberry. If you're looking for some eye-catching and unique to put on your nails, you should definitely check them out.

Before Espionage, there was Jamberry. Jamberry nail wraps work similarly to Espionage, but they require you to heat them with a blow dryer before applying. The heat makes them gooey and wrinkly, so you have to do your best to smooth them out over your nail before they cool down again. I was never able to get them quite perfect and ended up with little puckers in my nails that would start peeling over time. Jamberry's designs only stay on their website for a few months or less before they get discontinued, so you have to grab the ones you want as soon as you get the chance. I'm glad I got all the Disney Princess ones when I did since they no longer appear to feature any Disney wraps on their site anymore. Pictured above is a rose nail wrap from Beauty and the Beast on my pinky, sun symbol wrap from Tangled on my ring figure, metallic coral Ariel wraps from The Little Mermaid on my middle and index fingers, and a Disney Princess group nail wrap on my thumb. I love the variety that Jamberry offers with options for clear finishes that create the illusion of having a little picture on your bare nail as well as holographic and metallic designs for a bolder look. They can get rather pricey, and it's a pain to use a blow-dryer on all ten wraps each time you do a new design, though. I think I will be switching to the newer and snazzier Espionage wraps from now on.

Of course, there's always the old school option of painting your own designs. Pictured above is a Little Mermaid design I created using colored nail pens I got from Target with a shimmery blue polish underneath for the base. My red pinky represents Ariel's hair, my ring and middle fingers represent her purple shells, and my index finger and thumb have designs for her tail. Nail pens are not as easy to use as you might think because you have to press down very hard with them to release the polish, which could easily ruin the base polish under the design. It's also surprisingly difficult to get a fine line out of them in order to draw a picture. In the past, I've used toothpicks to drag out pictures from small dots of polish I'd place in the center of my nail. I found that a lot easier to control than the pens. There are also small bottles of polish you can find at certain specialty shops that have tiny brushes with only two or three bristles that you can use for finer designs that don't cover your whole nail. I prefer these over the pens from Target too because they are much easier to paint with. For an extra pop, you can find tiny sequins, pearls, and other accents at craft stores that you can press onto a painted nail and seal with a top coat, but they seem like they would fall off easily if you wear them for too long or brush your finger against something by accident.

There are so many ways to express yourself and bring out your inner princess through nail art. You can find lots of neat tutorials on YouTube if you have enough time to paint intricate details on your nails and wait long enough for them to dry. It's frustrating to touch something by accident and ruin a freshly painted design, especially if you spent a lot of time on it. If you're impatient like me, now you can purchase princess-themed wraps from sites like Espionage Cosmetics or Jamberry that just press on and go! Fashion and makeup are all about expressing yourself, so what can do is limited only by your imagination. With a little time and effort, anyone can make their nails magical!

Back around 2012, a friend of mine sent me a press release about how Disney was making a new princess show about a little girl from a poor village who becomes a princess overnight when her mother marries the king. The endearing image of the little girl on the press release instantly caught my attention with her unique reddish-brown curls, playful expression, and gorgeous lavender dress that was dripping with pearl accents. Something about this description and image got me so excited for the series that I got to work right away on making a grown-up sized cosplay of Sofia's elegant gown. The series premiered on Disney Junior with a TV special called Once Upon a Princess in which Sofia received her legendary Amulet of Avalor and sang about her insecurities for her future life as a princess heroine in the song "Not Ready To Be a Princess." I loved her instantly. Over the next six years, she took me on a four season-long journey filled with Disney Princesses, fairies, mermaid…

The internet has been buzzing about Kingdom Hearts III finally getting a release date after fifteen long years of anticipation. Unless it gets delayed again, we will be able to catch up with Sora, Donald, and Goofy as they travel through the realms of various Disney movies on January 29th, 2019. There have been a couple of trailers dropped over the last few days revealing footage from Frozen, Tangled, Toy Story, Monsters Inc., Hercules, and Pirates of the Caribbean. For me, the biggest announcement came from the latter half of last night's trailer in which Larxene of Organization XIII remarked that Elsa might be one of the new seven pure hearts that they needed for their latest quest. Anyone who has played the first game knows that this is a reference to the Princesses of Heart, a select group of Disney Princesses who had their chance to become video game royalty when they got captured by Maleficent in an attempt to use their pure hearts to open the Door to Darkness. My biggest pe…

We all had lots of fun playing with princess dolls as kids and brushing their hair until it became ratty and tangled. For those of us who are older, there has is the option of purchasing pricier collectible dolls that are made with finer details in their hair and clothes and come with their own stands for display purposes. While princesses have never exactly been lacking in options for collectible dolls, the Disney Princess Designer Collection that was revealed at the D23 Expo in 2011 was the start of something special. Each princess had her own designer dress that looked like it came straight off a modern-day runway. The collection was released alongside lithographs, cards, mugs, and other paraphernalia featuring beautiful matching artwork. The dolls themselves weren't sculpted from your typical Barbie mold. They had fully articulated wrist and elbow joints, salon quality hair that stayed perfectly in place, bigger painted eyes, and long realistic eyelashes that you could actuall…

In 2008, the Philippines released a mermaid princess telenovela that was based on a popular graphic novel by Mars Ravelo in 1952. Dyesebel is loosely based on the story of "The Little Mermaid" with a few distinct differences. It was Dyesebel's mother, Queen Lucia, who first fell in love with a human and left the underwater world of Sirenea to be with him, sacrificing her memories of her life as a mermaid in the process. Dyesebel was born on land, but because of her tail, her mother returned her to the sea, entrusting her to her best friend, Banak, to raise her. Her human father, Tino, was murdered by humans who believed that mermaids were bad luck. Unaware of the circumstances of her birth, Dyesebel grew up curious about the human world until one day, she fell in love with a human and was doomed to follow in her mother's footsteps. The 2008 adaptation of Dyesebel is performed in the native Filipino language, Tagalog, but I was able to watch it with English subtitles …

If you're one of the five people on Earth who still hasn't seen the new Wreck-It Ralph 2 trailer that dropped this morning, I'm here to break it down for you. The trailer featured roughly the first half of a scene in which all of the living voice actresses for the Disney Princesses reprised their roles as Vanellope snuck into their secret internet headquarters that was presented at the D23 Expo last year. A screenshot released last week previewed the scene with Ariel missing, but now we see that she was just off-screen combing her hair with her favorite dinglehopper in a blinged out version of pink tea dress along with lots more animation of other the princesses in their oddly disproportionate new CGI style animation. Let's take a look.

For starters, it's a bit odd how Ariel and Cinderella have swapped the levels of bling on their ballgowns. In the 1950 animated movie, Cinderella's dress appeared to have made from a lightweight silvery-white fabric emblazoned w…

The internet went a little crazy when Entertainment Weekly released Disney's first promo photos of the fully costumed actors from their upcoming Aladdin remake last week. Many were disappointed with what they saw, which unfortunately tends to be the case for live-action remakes. For instance, Aladdin's signature purple vest was changed to red, making it closer to the Broadway version of the show. He was also given a relatively nice shirt underneath, which is more than a little confusing for those of us who remember how poor he was in the original film. Will Smith as the Genie looked a little too much like a normal human instead of a mystical blue entity, but apparently that's still coming. Princess fans were most excited to see previews of Jasmine's wardrobe. In terms of quantity, the internet did not disappoint. We now have images of three of Jasmine's looks that will be featured in the movie as well as a peek at her new handmaiden.

In my "Little Mermaid" origins post, I mentioned that there were three live-action movies in the works based on the beloved Hans Christian Andersen tale. Since then, a few announcements have been made about all three of these movies. One of them has a theatrical release date, and it's sooner than you might think. The circus-themed indie movie that's had a trailer out for several years now is coming to select AMC theaters on August 17th. That's in two months! I wish I could be more excited about it, but the plot looks a lot closer to the 2006 tongue-in-cheek teen mermaid movie Aquamarine than the fairy tale that it's named after. The trailer focuses on how a little girl's belief in mermaids has the potential to save the aquatic heroine who is held captive in a tank at a carnival. I've been feeling indifferent about this adaptation ever since the first trailer was released, but it's nice to know that I will have the option to see it on the big scree…

Sofia the First, everyone's favorite princess-in-training, has met every official Disney Princess that existed when her show began with the sole exception of Pocahontas. The power of her purple amulet granted her the ability to summon famous princesses whenever she was in trouble. Technically, she never met Anna either, but the episode "Olaf and the Tale of Miss Nettle" implied that she was supposed to meet her but got Olaf instead because her amulet was on the fritz. About a year ago, her amulet turned pink and granted her new powers. It now sends her to help princesses, meaning that the chances of her meeting Pocahontas at this point are virtually nonexistent. Why did they acknowledge every other princess movie except this one? Actually, they did acknowledge the 1995 animated classic in an episode of Sofia, but it was very subtle.

In the 2015 episode of Sofia the First, "The Secret Library," Sofia discovers a hidden passageway beneath her castle where a boat …